Boomerang Book Bites: The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt...
Following on from the phenomenally brilliant The Day The Crayons Quit comes the sequel. The crayons are back…and they are still not happy. This time around Duncan has to deal with the lost and...
View ArticleBoomerang Book Bites: Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt
Patrick deWitt’s follow up to the brilliant The Sisters Brothers is just as described by the publisher on my advanced reading copy, “incredible”. Continuing on with the subversiveness that made The...
View ArticleBoomerang Book Bites: Sweet Caress by William Boyd
The new William Boyd is simply sublime.Sweet Caress tells the story of photographer Amory Clay and her tumultuous life over the course of a tumultuous century. Interspersed with photos from key...
View ArticleBoomerang Book Bites: Some Luck by Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley’s writing is fantastic. She eases you into the family she has created and before you know it you are completely sucked into the story. You will fall in love with each character in a...
View ArticleBoomerang Book Bites: Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks’ new novel is quite simply superb. Tackling themes he has explored before Faulks delivers an original novel that is haunting, beautiful and profound that will resonate all the way...
View ArticleBoomerang Book BItes: Zer0es by Chuck Wendig
On the surface this appears to be a cyber-thriller about hacking. But in the hands of Chuck Wendig it goes somewhere quite different. The book opens and we are introduced to five different hackers; an...
View ArticleBoomerang Book Bites: Soil by Jamie Kornegay
There is something about stories set in the American south, particularly those in and around the Mississippi. Whether they are classic American Southern Gothic, contemporary fiction, crime mystery or...
View ArticleBoomerang Book Bites: Slade House by David Mitchell
What a bonus it is to have a new David Mitchell book only a year after the incredible The Bone Clocks. David Mitchell started this story on twitter but became obsessed with the story he had started...
View ArticleBoomerang Book Bites: Touch by Claire North
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August announced the arrival of a very special talent. Claire North maybe the pseudonym for Catherine Webb (and Kate Griffin), who has already published a number of...
View ArticleBoomerang Book Bites: The Life And Death Of Sophie Stark by Anna North
This is an incredible read. Mesmerizing, hypnotic, addictive it captures you from its opening lines and doesn’t let go long after you have put the book down....
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